Savior or saviour?
In American English write savior; in British and Commonwealth English, saviour. savior is a noun meaning “A person who saves someone, rescues another from harm”; saviour is a noun meaning “UK and Canada spelling of savior”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) savior is about 2.2 times as common as saviour.
What is the difference between savior and saviour?
| savior | saviour | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | USA person who saves someone, rescues another from harm USA child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling"… | UK and Canada spelling of savior |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | saviors | saviours |
| Pronunciation | /ˈseɪvjɚ/ /ˈseɪvjə/ | not recorded |
| Region | US | no label |
| In writing | 4.7 times per million words | 2.1 times per million words |
Sources: savior and saviour in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of savior and saviour
savior
- 1
USA person who saves someone, rescues another from harm
- 2
USA child who is conceived in order to provide an organ or cell transplant to a sibling who has an otherwise fatal disease (used in combination, with "sibling", "baby", "child", "brother", "sister"…
saviour
- 1
UK and Canada spelling of savior
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, savior or saviour?
savior appears 4.7 times per million words; saviour 2.1 times per million words.
savior 4.7 times per million wordssaviour 2.1 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search savior vs saviour?
“savior vs saviour” is searched about 390 times a month on Google and 30 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“saviour vs savior”, “savior or saviour”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.